by Edmund Crispin · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099542131
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«The Case of the Gilded Fly» is the mystery novel by Edmund Crispin, published by Vintage in paperback (208 pages, in English).
In 1940s Oxford, an actress is found dead in a college room. The eccentric professor Gervase Fen, an amateur detective, investigates among the members of a theatre company where almost everyone had a motive to wish her ill. A classic mystery with an academic setting and humour.
First of the nine novels in the Gervase Fen series; it was originally published in 1944. Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of the composer Bruce Montgomery.
Aimed at readers of classic mystery who value eccentric detectives, the academic setting, and the humour of British golden age detective fiction.
Robert Bruce Montgomery was an English crime writer and composer. Known as a composer as Bruce Montgomery, he published his detective novels under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin.
